Matvienko called the freezing of bank accounts of Russians abroad a genocide

“Without trial, without investigation, the reserves of the Russian Federation are frozen, without trial, the accounts of Russians and Belarusians (abroad) are frozen on an ethnic basis.

This is discrimination, this is genocide,” she said on the air of the Belarusian TV channel STV.

Earlier, the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, said that the financial regulator, under Western sanctions, has the ability to dispose of about half of its reserves.

The first deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Ksenia Yudaeva, said that the Bank of Russia was preparing for the possibility of freezing Russian reserves, although it considered the probability of this step to be low.

Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that the freezing of Russian assets by some Western countries will lead to negative consequences for themselves.